Showtime Supports More Episodes of ‘Cartoon President’

Stephen Colbert’s animated take on the Donald Trump presidency has been granted seven more episodes from Showtime. The new episodes will debut on the cabler this summer. The show will serve up the last of its initial 10-episode run on Sunday, April 8, at 8 p.m.

Colbert and Chris Licht’s series Our Cartoon President debuted on Showtime last month and delivered 2 million viewers per week. The toon follows Trump’s day-to-day misadventures in in a parallel cartoon universe.

The show’s voice cast includes Jeff Bergman as Donald Trump, Cody Lindquist as Melania Trump and John Viener as Mike Pence. The CBS TV-produced show is exec produced by R. J. Fried. Tim Luecke is the lead animator and co-exec producer.